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Two former Parramatta Eels players are accused of harbouring semi-automatic weapons and possessing more than half-a-million dollars in cash after dramatic arrests in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday.

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They were found in different rooms in the home, their bodies hidden under clothes and bedding and, in the case of the boy, under a child's play tent.

The young girl had adhesive tape wrapped around her head and her arms tied behind her back.

The young boy had parts of his body wrapped in tape and his hands and feet were secured behind his back in a hog-tied fashion.

The court was told that the Crown's case would be part circumstantial and partly based on admissions Peet made, including an emergency phone call to police where he told the operator "I killed my lady and her two kids".

But Mr Williams said when he was interviewed later Peet claimed to have no memory of the events at the house and said he had been a victim of constant physical abuse at the hands of Ms Wilson-Rigney.

Defence counsel Bill Boucaut said a key issue in the case would be whether Peet had formed the necessary "murderous intent".

He told the court that a psychological diagnosis, obtained by the defence, suggested Peet fitted the profile of someone who had been a victim of domestic abuse and had acted in a dissociative state.